Kings Artist Run Initiative
Exhibition
Dates
Friday 30th October - Saturday 21st November 2009
Gallery hours - 12- 6.00pm daily
Venue
Kings Artist Run Initiative
Level 1 / 171 King Street Melbourne VIC 3000
Gallery hours - Wed - Sat 12 - 6.00pm
Website: Kings Artist Run Initiative
Friday 30th October - Saturday 21st November 2009
Gallery hours - 12- 6.00pm daily
Venue
Kings Artist Run Initiative
Level 1 / 171 King Street Melbourne VIC 3000
Gallery hours - Wed - Sat 12 - 6.00pm
Website: Kings Artist Run Initiative
Ka Yin Kwok
Artist: Ka Yin Kwok
Title: 30 minutes with a sex worker
Format: video projection with sound
Ka-Yin Kwok works with video and documentary. She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Film and Television (Documentary) and is currently a Masters in Fine Arts candidate at Monash University. Recent shows were held at the Australian Centre for Photography, 24 Hr Art, Galerie Petronas (Malaysia) and Loop ’09 (Barcelona).
30 minutes with a sex worker
With a video camera strapped to her helmet, Melissa gives me a bicycle tour around the streets of St Kilda.
Melissa is a regular at the pharmacy I work at in St Kilda. One morning she came in and said, “The quickest 50 bucks I’m made. 50 bucks in 30 seconds – that’s pretty good”. I was genuinely impressed.
I have never paid Melissa for her time but I do offer to buy her a thank-you present - UDLs, Passionfruit and Vodka.
The first time I bought them, the local supermarket only had three cans so I got her other flavours. She was not impressed.
“Did you go to Safeway?” “I did” “Are you sure they didn’t have it?” “I’m sure, I asked the guy at the register.”
The next time I saw her she told me that I was right – Safeway ran out. I think that was a pivotal moment in our friendship.
- Ka-Yin Kwok, September 2009
The Janet Holmes à Court Artists' Grant is a NAVA initiative, made possible through the generous sponsorship of Mrs Janet Holmes à Court and through the support of the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council for the Arts.
Peter Fifer
Artist: Peter Fifer
Title: the bar flew up and bit
Format: installation
Fifer’s work traverses the divide between the desire to know more and the human fascination with obscurity and myth.
Peter Fifer graduated Fine Arts at Monash University with Honours in 2006, and has shown at galleries in and around Melbourne, including Seventh, Conical, Shifted and most recently at John Buckley’s survey show of contemporary painting. Peter currently lives and works in Melbourne.
Fifer’s work traverses the divide between the desire to know more and the human fascination with obscurity and myth. The images ask us what we may loose if all is divulged. By holding the myth sacred and denying the viewer a clear entry point; we are challenged to question our hunger for knowledge. There is desperation in this cataclysm; a certain claustrophobia in the awareness that all will not be revealed. Yet there’s humour from this desperation, a cowboy who cracks a wry joke in his darkest moment. A joke made in the absence of words. A joke that keeps you duly at bay and interested. Truncated heads that beseech of you ‘tell me my story because I don’t have enough words to tell it’. Much of this is about exploration, what do we know of our explorers? Are we better at telling their tales then they ever were? In every story told we lose the mystery of an explorer and gain myth.
Title: the bar flew up and bit
Format: installation
Fifer’s work traverses the divide between the desire to know more and the human fascination with obscurity and myth.
Peter Fifer graduated Fine Arts at Monash University with Honours in 2006, and has shown at galleries in and around Melbourne, including Seventh, Conical, Shifted and most recently at John Buckley’s survey show of contemporary painting. Peter currently lives and works in Melbourne.
Fifer’s work traverses the divide between the desire to know more and the human fascination with obscurity and myth. The images ask us what we may loose if all is divulged. By holding the myth sacred and denying the viewer a clear entry point; we are challenged to question our hunger for knowledge. There is desperation in this cataclysm; a certain claustrophobia in the awareness that all will not be revealed. Yet there’s humour from this desperation, a cowboy who cracks a wry joke in his darkest moment. A joke made in the absence of words. A joke that keeps you duly at bay and interested. Truncated heads that beseech of you ‘tell me my story because I don’t have enough words to tell it’. Much of this is about exploration, what do we know of our explorers? Are we better at telling their tales then they ever were? In every story told we lose the mystery of an explorer and gain myth.
Andrew Liversidge
Artist: Andrew Liversidge
Title: Nothing for Nothing
Format: Installation
This exhibition seeks to give abstract form to an otherwise boundless and formless period of time.
Andrew Liversidge is currently completing his M.F.A at the Victorian College of the Arts.
Years ago, when faced with the somewhat problematic feeling that everything was endlessly slipping away, I decided to counter this seemingly irresolvable slide into oblivion by keeping everything of something. This ‘something’ turned out to be the directionless notation, for three years, of every single text message I received.
The result of this idle-time preoccupation is the basis for the show Nothing for Nothing in which I have attempted to graph the velocity of a past relationship based on how many syllables I received on a daily basis over a two year period.
The failed relation between empirical data and rational systems implemented to ascribe meaning to that data could be seen as a gesture that points towards the so-called infinite horizons of unknowable multiplicity. In this light, the resulting exhibition comprising sculpture, video and performance, seeks to give abstract form to an otherwise boundless and formless period of time.
Title: Nothing for Nothing
Format: Installation
This exhibition seeks to give abstract form to an otherwise boundless and formless period of time.
Andrew Liversidge is currently completing his M.F.A at the Victorian College of the Arts.
Years ago, when faced with the somewhat problematic feeling that everything was endlessly slipping away, I decided to counter this seemingly irresolvable slide into oblivion by keeping everything of something. This ‘something’ turned out to be the directionless notation, for three years, of every single text message I received.
The result of this idle-time preoccupation is the basis for the show Nothing for Nothing in which I have attempted to graph the velocity of a past relationship based on how many syllables I received on a daily basis over a two year period.
The failed relation between empirical data and rational systems implemented to ascribe meaning to that data could be seen as a gesture that points towards the so-called infinite horizons of unknowable multiplicity. In this light, the resulting exhibition comprising sculpture, video and performance, seeks to give abstract form to an otherwise boundless and formless period of time.
Kings Artist Run Initiative
Located in the heart of Melbourne's CBD, Kings ARI aims to present the best in contemporary arts practice. The gallery on the first floor comprises two large exhibition spaces, plus a purpose built video projection room with surround-sound.
Kings ARI promotes ideas-based practices and curated projects. Proposals are accepted on artistic merit with a preference for showcasing emerging talent and providing a venue for established artists to experiment and take risks.
Kings ARI promotes ideas-based practices and curated projects. Proposals are accepted on artistic merit with a preference for showcasing emerging talent and providing a venue for established artists to experiment and take risks.